The Relational Interpretation of Quantum Physics

To appear in the "Oxford Handbook of the History of Interpretation of Quantum Physics". arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1712.02894The relational interpretation (or RQM, for Relational Quantum Mechanics) solves the measurement problem by considering an ontology of sparse relative events, or "facts". Facts are realized in interactions between any two physical systems and are relative to these systems. RQM's technical core is the realisation that quantum transition amplitudes determine physical probabilities only when their arguments are facts relative to the same system. The relativity of facts can be neglected in the approximation where decoherence hides interference, thus making facts approximately stable